On the night Tate Reeves won the 2019 governor’s race, most of the state’s top Republican elected officials stood to the side of the stage, close to the cameras, at the new governor’s victory party in downtown Jackson.

The same sun scorches both. The same struggle burdens both. The same love brings hope to both. Located more than 8,000 miles apart, it’s hard to imagine Marks, Mississippi and Lesotho, Africa sharing any similarities. And yet, the two places play to the same beat of the resounding drum.

THE NUMBERS ARE IN, AND for the fourth year in a row, Mississippi State University is the top choice among Northside graduates.
This fall, 273 seniors say they will attend the Starkville university, while 252 will be attending the University of Mississippi.

When I was in grammar school, just after the invention of the mimeograph, religious broadcasters often used the phrase, “To all you shut-ins out there in radio land.” I asked my grandmother what a shut-in was and could we go and look at one.
She said, “A shut-in is a person who’s not able to go out of the house.”

A man needs to know his limitations. Good advice from Clint Eastwood's "Dirty" Harry Callahan character who gave it to various over-matched villains he dispatched. It also applies to Government Man who listens to Sky-Is-Falling Man and tries to fix the unfixable. And makes it worse.

JACKSON, Miss. – Entergy Mississippi rates will drop from June through September, some of the hottest months of the year when energy use is often high. The typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month will pay $9.71 less, or less than $98.

On Thursday, February 20, 2020, at approximately 5:28 PM, the Madison Police Department received information from Loss Prevention employees of Walmart located at 227 Grandview Boulevard in Madison that there was a male subject shoplifting in the store. As the male subject approached the grocery exit of the store the loss prevention employees id

The last couple of months have seen several new phrases enter the popular lexicon: “social distancing,” “flattening the curve,” and “shelter in place” to name a few. (Somewhere George Orwell is spinning in his grave.)

Nobody argues about whether the sky is blue. We all know that it is so.
We do study, debate and argue about issues for which there is no clear answer. When to cease “shelter at home” is a very important issue for which there is no clear answer.

I am raising three women. They are girls right now, but they will be women when I’m done with them—I hope. That’s the plan anyway. I’m aiming for three distinct versions of confident, fulfilled, kind, and brave badass women. There are so many things I do not care about regarding my children’s futures.

Friday, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba announced the launch of the City’s first-ever Mental Health ‘Warmline’, designed to help citizens cope with the mental toll of self-isolation during the COVID-19 public health crisis.

A new Costco could give the city of Ridgeland as much as $1.3 million a year in new sales tax revenues, funds that will help keep residents and business owners’ property taxes low, said Mayor Gene McGee.

This 84Th year’s formal presentation of debutantes as planned by the executive board of the Debutante Club of Mississippi, Inc. will take place Friday, November 24 in the ballroom of the Country Club of Jackson.

Ross Weems is president of the Phoenix Club of Jackson. Weems, who has been an active member of the board since 2015, received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Mississippi State University and currently is first vice president with BankPlus’ Private Client Group in Jackson.